Just a little over a month ago, Bleeding Through lashed out at Trustkill Records for allegedly screwing them out of royalties; that conflicts seems to have been temporarily resolved, as Trustkill will release Bleeding Through’s new album, Declaration, September 30.

But now Throwdown vocalist Dave Peters is lashing out at Trustkill for nearly identical reasons (As an interesting side note, Bleeding Through front man Brandan Schieppati used to be a member of Throwdown). A guest column on Headbanger’s Blog reads in part:

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We’ve heard lots of not so great things about the way Trustkill Records treat their artists, who have been jumping ship left and right as of late (see: Terror, Throwdown, etc.) – but we’ve never printed anything because no one was ever willing to go on record about it.

But now Bleeding Through have done a guest piece for Headbanger’s Blog in which they allege that Trustkill have basically joined the Tony Brummel club. Read the article in its entirety after the jump.

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No one should be surprised that hardcore stalwarts Terror ankled Trustkill for Century; after all, back in November Terror front man Scott Vogel told us that “we’re not ruling Trustkill out, but we wanna hear labels to hear [the new material], and we want the label that’s really gonna get behind us… someone that’s gonna really believe in us and push us and keep us out on the road and keep us paying our bills.” Do those sound like the words of a man who wants to re-up with his current label? No. No, they do not.

Still, I’m not sure if Century can really do anything for this band. I don’t mean that as a knock against Century, who are clearly one of the best metal labels out there; I just mean that at this point, Terror sounds like Terror, they have their core fan base, and unless they decide to go off and write their equivalent of “Enter Sandman,” I don’t see their records sales increasing or decreasing drastically.

Case in point is “Relentless Through and Through,” the new song the band has posted on their MySpace page. It comes off of The Damned, The Shamed, which will be released on Century on June 10, and it sounds exactly like Terror. That’s not a bad thing – in fact, I anticipate this album being pretty solid. I just hope that no one thinks that this band is gonna take the next step to Hatebreedian levels of popularity anytime soon, ’cause I don’t see it in the cards for them.

-AR

Winners to last week’s contest which asked for funny captions for the above photo have been announced! One grand prize winner gets the new CD Confidence and Consequence from Too Pure to Die , as well as a Too Pure to Die t-shirt and Trustkill Records t-shirt. Four runners up get their very own copy of the CD. And here are the winning captions:

WINNER:

DeathMetalDave: “You see this? This is my metal face. And when I put on my metal face, it’s time to fuck shit up….somebody toss me into the pit.”

RUNNERS UP:

LiquidMan666: “Billy Milano has really let himself go.”

LubbyBube: “Chad Gay and Vinnie Small.”

J Cantrell: “When World of Warcraft and reality collide.”

Matt: “I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”

Congrats! Stay tuned for our next photo caption contest, coming soon to a metal blog near you.

-VN